[Bf-education] Blender for kids
Pete Dakin
petedakin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 10:53:38 CEST 2015
Hi,
You may be interested to connect with 3D Movie School, which is an
initiative dedicated to connecting animator talent with school kids, via
either after school clubs or in-school lessons.
We are about to enter a Phase 2 pilot season (Sep - Dec '15) and are
looking to connect with like minded animators/film makers/tertiary
students/freelancers (who would be the class/cluib coaches) and schools
(who would offer the club/lesson slots).
A managed library of lesson material, tutorials and outcomes would grow
organically.
Further reading and details of the Phase 1 pilot which concluded last month:
http://www.3dmovieschool.club
http://www.3dmovieschool.club/movie-magic/blender-3d-news-community-applauds-pilot-movie/201507
And the movie we made: https://youtu.be/6AoO5NkhN-U
I'll be at the upcoming Blender Conf in Oct, hoping to meet up with like
minded to bounce ideas around.
Pete Dakin (UK based)
w <http://about.me/peterdakin>ww.3dmovieschool.club
@3dmovieschool
support at 3dmovieschool.club
petedakin at gmail.com
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> From: rebel rosy <rebel_rosy at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Blender for kids
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> Hello there, I have read this wonderful post about how you are willing to
> start a project on teaching kids to use this very powerful program. I'm
> willing to assist in this as well as I have 10 plus years of experience in
> blender and it is wonderful to see open oppotunities like this. I'm 33 in
> age and I focus on animation, modelling and cartooning. I hope this message
> is not automated. :)
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 3:32 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> In a way I am focused on this project. My target age is a bit older but
> not much. I was thinking 14 to 24.I want to teach the basics of modeling
> and game programming.
> I have not found much in the way of good programming tools for learning. I
> have made a few videos. Please check them out and tell me what you think. I
> am a pro and not afraid of well given crits. I am new to this idea of
> teaching with videos and am learning as I go.
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfsIkrFlGyqDtGzKj8B3bw
> I am also very fond of Pygame and Panda3d.
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Monique <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Past months I've been asked to give Blender workshops to kids between 8
> and 16 years old. I searched for Blender teaching material but couldn't
> find much. I decided to use some simple models from Blendswap and hide
> the majority of buttons in the UI. Surprisingly this worked better than
> expected.
> The kids were very enthusiastic and could perform the tasks pretty well.
> At the end I was asked how kids could continu learning Blender.
>
> This motivated me to start an open website/platform in NL to teach kids
> more on technology, especially Blender & Python. But what is a good
> format for teaching Blender to kids?
> Can we teach Blender to kids in a same manner as kids are thaught math
> or grammar?
> Are there tutorials or program lessons available for kids?
> Is anyone working on this and willing to cooperate?
>
> Kind regards,
> Monique Dewanchand
> At Mind
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> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:54:52 +0200
> From: Monique <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl>
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> That is great!
>
> Op 18/08/15 om 18:07 schreef rebel rosy:
> > Hello there, I have read this wonderful post about how you are willing
> > to start a project on teaching kids to use this very powerful program.
> > I'm willing to assist in this as well as I have 10 plus years of
> > experience in blender and it is wonderful to see open oppotunities
> > like this. I'm 33 in age and I focus on animation, modelling and
> > cartooning. I hope this message is not automated. :)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 3:32 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In a way I am focused on this project. My target age is a bit older
> > but not much. I was thinking 14 to 24.
> > I want to teach the basics of modeling and game programming.
> >
> > I have not found much in the way of good programming tools for
> > learning. I have made a few videos. Please check them out and tell me
> > what you think. I am a pro and not afraid of well given crits. I am
> > new to this idea of teaching with videos and am learning as I go.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfsIkrFlGyqDtGzKj8B3bw
> > I am also very fond of Pygame and Panda3d.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Monique <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl
> > <mailto:m.dewanchand at atmind.nl>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Past months I've been asked to give Blender workshops to kids
> > between 8
> > and 16 years old. I searched for Blender teaching material but
> > couldn't
> > find much. I decided to use some simple models from Blendswap and
> hide
> > the majority of buttons in the UI. Surprisingly this worked better
> > than
> > expected.
> > The kids were very enthusiastic and could perform the tasks pretty
> > well.
> > At the end I was asked how kids could continu learning Blender.
> >
> > This motivated me to start an open website/platform in NL to teach
> > kids
> > more on technology, especially Blender & Python. But what is a good
> > format for teaching Blender to kids?
> > Can we teach Blender to kids in a same manner as kids are thaught
> math
> > or grammar?
> > Are there tutorials or program lessons available for kids?
> > Is anyone working on this and willing to cooperate?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Monique Dewanchand
> > At Mind
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bf-education mailing list
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> > Douglas E Knapp, MSAOM, LAc.
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> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:42:57 +1000
> From: Jamie Le Rossignol <jlerossignol at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-education] Blender for kids
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> Hi Monique,
>
>
>
> With Python, why not use something like Khan academy (
> https://www.khanacademy.org). I have not included Python in my Blender
> course yet, but will in the future. Based on my experiences with Games
> programming using Flash, I will not be pitching it below about year 5-6 (10
> year olds?). however, my experience as a teacher has mostly being
> secondary.
>
> @Peter. I've used a similar way when teaching ActionScripting in Flash.
> They can attach behaviours to the graphical objects they create in flash,
> and I'd go the same way with Blender. Use the Game engine to create simple
> games that demonstrate concepts. for example drag and drop, decision
> statements, collision detection, etc. Over the 16 weeks I could take a
> class from nothing through to a clone of space invaders.
>
> In terms of teaching blender, I take the approach of a series of tasks
> aimed at creating a short 10-30 video with 15 year old students. As I can
> not assume prior experience. I can see the same approach working with 12
> y.o.
>
> In order;
>
> 1. Shape stack - basic UI, moving objects, and rendering a frame
> 2. Pong Task - Covers the basic UI, adding objects, moving them, key
> framing, rendering an animation
> 3. Star Wars Credits - Using & editing Text objects, adding materials
> (Blender Internal Engine), adding stars with the world settings
> 4. Cartoon Car - editing objects (basic mesh modeling), Combining
> simple objects into a group/parenting,
> 5. Creating the Earth - Adding multiple materials to an object including
> image maps, bump/texture maps.
>
> I am planning of putting up my course outline, but I have limited time for
> tasks not directly related to my current teaching load. If anyone wants the
> outlines, I can post copies online. I'm still to full write up the lesson
> plans and presentations.
>
> Cheers,
> Jamie Le Rossignol
>
>
> On 19 August 2015 at 03:54, Monique <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl> wrote:
>
> > That is great!
> >
> > Op 18/08/15 om 18:07 schreef rebel rosy:
> >
> > Hello there, I have read this wonderful post about how you are willing to
> > start a project on teaching kids to use this very powerful program. I'm
> > willing to assist in this as well as I have 10 plus years of experience
> in
> > blender and it is wonderful to see open oppotunities like this. I'm 33 in
> > age and I focus on animation, modelling and cartooning. I hope this
> message
> > is not automated. :)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 3:32 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> > <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In a way I am focused on this project. My target age is a bit older but
> > not much. I was thinking 14 to 24.
> > I want to teach the basics of modeling and game programming.
> >
> > I have not found much in the way of good programming tools for learning.
> I
> > have made a few videos. Please check them out and tell me what you
> think. I
> > am a pro and not afraid of well given crits. I am new to this idea of
> > teaching with videos and am learning as I go.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfsIkrFlGyqDtGzKj8B3bw
> > I am also very fond of Pygame and Panda3d.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Monique < <m.dewanchand at atmind.nl>
> > m.dewanchand at atmind.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Past months I've been asked to give Blender workshops to kids between 8
> > and 16 years old. I searched for Blender teaching material but couldn't
> > find much. I decided to use some simple models from Blendswap and hide
> > the majority of buttons in the UI. Surprisingly this worked better than
> > expected.
> > The kids were very enthusiastic and could perform the tasks pretty well.
> > At the end I was asked how kids could continu learning Blender.
> >
> > This motivated me to start an open website/platform in NL to teach kids
> > more on technology, especially Blender & Python. But what is a good
> > format for teaching Blender to kids?
> > Can we teach Blender to kids in a same manner as kids are thaught math
> > or grammar?
> > Are there tutorials or program lessons available for kids?
> > Is anyone working on this and willing to cooperate?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Monique Dewanchand
> > At Mind
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bf-education mailing list
> > Bf-education at blender.org
> > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-education
> >
> >
> >
> >
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